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Ya ya increase more controversial checks at the border. Int. Tourists decreases. Shocked Pikachu face
Article text:
Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year
Graph in article: Number of visitors declined by over 10 million from Canada alone (from 20 million) since the start of Trump’s second term. Other countries have similar trends, but with smaller initial numbers.
I’m not sure if I understand how they define year-on-year.
Maybe there was already a huge drop in 2025 - one set of numbers is since this presidency started, the other is since a year ago.
Who would have thought that a GeStaPo randomly taking potential non-Americans off the street and and putting them in concentration camps could lead to tourists looking for safer destinations?
I’m genuinely 50% or more sure they wouldn’t let me in at the border. Would be a waste of flight tickets. I love the actual land under US jurisdiction but don’t actually want to visit that shit show right now.
At this point I would begin some heavy self reflection if they still let me into that country
i stopped going after 9/11 and the US went insane then, now it’s jist deeper in the mire.
I lived there for a time in '94 and visited twice a year for holidays after that. Haven’t been back.
Grew up in the states and always felt uneasy how extreme and hollow the patriotism felt, like an ersatz religion. Could have have dual citizenship, but there was nothing compelling.
But 9/11 was something else. It was absolutely crazy how they turned the jingoism to 11 overnight. It still creeps me out after all these years. Despite all the family there, since then I’ve been there only once.
How is it mind-boggling? You elected fascist, felon, narcissist Dementia Don, and he’s fomented far-right assholes to his ranks. This has made America a cesspool, and it’s deserving of the scorn. And threatening sovereign states is making it worse.
At this point, it seems the point is to make the place malcontent, which adds to more of the far-right ranks, and it snowballs into needing intervention.
You elected fascist, felon, narcissist Dementia Don
Twice.
America: come for the sights; stay because you don’t have a key to the four-by-four chicken wire cage you’re pissing blood in after being repeatedly smashed in the kidneys with a rifle butt.
As a Canadian, this really warms my heart, thank you!
Canada gooses takin’ Canada deuces.
I was hoping the title would say, ‘Decline in tourism SLAMS US economy’.
How would a decline in tourism voice mild criticism of the US economy?
“it’s mind-boggling”
well there’s your problem and your answer. if you have no idea why this could be you’re the reason we aren’t going to the US.
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
Is it, tho? Is it really mind-boggling?
Has this head of US Travel Association perhaps been frozen in stasis for the past 24 months? I’m not sure how else they could perceive what’s happening as anything other than normal and expected.
A lot of people still act oblivious to what’s happening in the Untied States. Sometimes I think I’m delusional
Untied States
Maybe a typo, but accurate regardless.
Well … they don’t seem terribly united of late.
Not even close, no.
Not a typo, I’ve been deliberately spelling it that way since Trump has been back in power
Its baked deep into the culture, right from childhood. US exceptionalism is a hell of a drug. And its going to lead to the country’s collapse.
Small minds are easily boggled
Probably used GROK to compose that response.
America.gov “super intelligence” (which curiously still has an “AI”, not “SI”, content warning)
I typed in a racial epiphet into the chat bot and it spit out an application. I don’t know what for.
Probably Truth Social.
I’m from there, but I’m not voluntarily going back unless someone in my family is sick/dying. Even then, there’s zero chance I’d take my non-white wife who barely speaks any English in the current environment.
US Government: “Foreigners are not welcome here!”
Foreigners: stop coming here
US Government: surprised Pikachu
Good. The Untied States needs to feel consequences
You’re not missing out on much.
“hits”? like, it just happened?
There has been a significant drop in visitors from US allies like Canada and several European countries
please don’t describe Canada as a US ally. we’re literally being threatened by the US, that kind of cancels any ally situation
